Re: [NTG-context] showfont with xetex (syntax changed?)

2007-12-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
I ran sudo ctxtools --updatecontext about one hour ago and all this that you write here can't be found (s-pre-63.tex is the latest) ... Where did you mean should I grep the sources for definefontfeature ?? Steffen Am 06.12.2007 um 17:35 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Dec 6, 2007 5:09 PM

Re: [NTG-context] Gentium Basic/Book

2007-11-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
20.11.2007 um 01:57 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On 11/19/07, Joel C. Salomon wrote: Guess I asked for too much at once. I've downloaded the Gentium Basic/Basic Book set of fonts from http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic, and I'd like to use them with ConTeXt. I ran texfont (with the command

Re: [NTG-context] Gentium Basic/Book

2007-11-22 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Nov 22, 2007 1:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following works for me with LuaTeX and XeTeX. I had my test file in the same directory as the fonts, can you try this or you forgot to call fc-cache -v -r. I ran fc-cache -v -r, and that typescript worked for me, but I

Re: [NTG-context] Gentium Basic/Book

2007-11-19 Thread Joel C. Salomon
Guess I asked for too much at once. I've downloaded the Gentium Basic/Basic Book set of fonts from http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic, and I'd like to use them with ConTeXt. I ran texfont (with the command line texfont --fontroot=c:\users\chesky\programs\context\tex\texmf-local --sourcepath

Re: [NTG-context] Gentium Basic/Book

2007-11-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Joel C. Salomon wrote: Guess I asked for too much at once. I've downloaded the Gentium Basic/Basic Book set of fonts from http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic, and I'd like to use them with ConTeXt. I ran texfont (with the command line texfont --fontroot=c:\users\chesky\programs\context

Re: [NTG-context] Gentium Basic/Book

2007-11-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/19/07, Joel C. Salomon wrote: Guess I asked for too much at once. I've downloaded the Gentium Basic/Basic Book set of fonts from http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic, and I'd like to use them with ConTeXt. I ran texfont (with the command line texfont --fontroot=c:\users\chesky

[NTG-context] Some update woes on Linux

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Smith
by doing: texexec --make --all To check I had the correct version, I ran, on the commandline, these two: texexec --check and: ctxtools --contextversion Both gave me 2007.09.28 16:52, which seems quite correct. However, when I try to compile a document (with the --xtx option), I get

Re: [NTG-context] Some update woes on Linux

2007-11-06 Thread Mojca Miklavec
didn't work. A problem with the paths. First red flag, but I went on manually. I got the newest cont-tmf.zip and unzipped it in /usr/share/texmf and regenerated the formats by doing: texexec --make --all To check I had the correct version, I ran, on the commandline, these two: texexec

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in ConTeXt

2007-08-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Pascal, I adjusted it to my own situation (AGaramondPro, not the Premier version). And I ran it succesfully. However, I can't see where the files have gone? They end up in a directory called texmf in the local directory, unless you have given the command line to change this directory (see

Re: [NTG-context] luac-texluac-luatex-texlua-...

2007-08-08 Thread WN
and named it texlua and put it in the texmf-linux/bin directory. Then after reading the MyWay on MKIV I did a texexec --make --all --luatex to generate the formats and ran succesfully the following tex script and produced a pdf file. % engine=luatex \starttext Hello from luatex \blank LUA \startlua

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX issues

2007-08-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
standalone installation, unzipped it, and ran texexec --lua file. With pdftex this used to work because the formats were located in the texmf tree. However, AFAIU, mkiv wants the standards to be in the TEXMFCACHE directory (which is mapped to the TEMP directory). So, simply getting the zip files

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX issues

2007-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I noticed similar problem (texexec --lua fails without any useful message) when I tried to install context on a new machine. I simply downloaded context standalone installation, unzipped it, and ran texexec --lua file. With pdftex this used to work because the formats

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in ConTeXt

2007-08-07 Thread Pascal de Bruijn
boldGaramondPremrPro-Bd.otf italic GaramondPremrPro-It.otf bolditalic GaramondPremrPro-BdIt.otf -- I adjusted it to my own situation (AGaramondPro, not the Premier version). And I ran it succesfully. However, I can't see where

Re: [NTG-context] referencing figures with \in

2007-06-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
from you. I just ran: % hans-prob.tex \starttext I used to place references to figures and tables in the following way: \placefigure[][fig:myfig]{Title}{Content} \in{figure}[fig:myfig] This however printed a dot instead of the expected figure . Changing to \at{figure}[fig:myfig] again printed

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost memory was: metafun.mem on texlive

2007-05-16 Thread Andrea Valle
Ok, I saw I have asked the same thing before on the list, and I'm having the same problems, but cannot reconstruct the whole process. (As soon as I end up, I'll wikify the infos) Now, I'm always runnin texexec --make --all Doesn't it make also metafun? I also ran texexec --make metafun

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost memory was: metafun.mem on texlive

2007-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
, apparently it gives an error I also ran texexec --make metafun but I'm getting the same error. Are you sure it is the exact same error? (it shouldn't be). Can you cut and paste the complete output of texexec --make --verbose metafun please? Best wishes, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] What module does this document use ?

2007-05-09 Thread Lingyun Yang
I comment out the following line, compiles fine, and get what I want, \Topics, \Topic seems not work here, but it's fine. \overcomePDFpagefalse I ran it under Debian/unstable. Thanks, Hans and Zhichu regards, Lingyun On 5/9/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lingyun Yang wrote: Thank

[NTG-context] figuretext environmnet

2007-03-29 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, I ran into the following problem. \startfiguretext ... \stopfiguretext generates an error about undefined controlsequence \stopfiguretext -\dostoptextfloat. ConTeXt ver: 2007.03.19 11:20 MKII fmt: 2007.3.29 int: english/ english Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [NTG-context] figuretext environmnet

2007-03-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi Hans, I ran into the following problem. \startfiguretext ... \stopfiguretext generates an error about undefined controlsequence \stopfiguretext -\dostoptextfloat. \startfiguretext {caption} {\externalfigure[dummy]} \input tufte \stopfiguretext works

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-27 Thread Hans Hagen
version is 2007.01.12. Then I ran ctxtools which installed an updated ConTeXt in texmf-local (besides the folder 2007). Now the pdfTeX engine still works fine. However, XeTeX complained about the wrong format files. So I remade them with texexec --make --xtx en nl. Later XeTeX spills out

[NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-26 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Dear folks, I'm afraid I'm facing the XeTeX problem again after I updated ConTeXt to version 2007.02.21 :-( On a freshly installed MacTeX-2007 (which is TeXLive 2007 up to minor modifications) everything is fine. The ConTeXt version is 2007.01.12. Then I ran ctxtools which installed

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX problem again

2007-02-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
. Then I ran ctxtools which installed an updated ConTeXt in texmf-local (besides the folder 2007). Now the pdfTeX engine still works fine. However, XeTeX complained about the wrong format files. So I remade them with texexec --make --xtx en nl. Later XeTeX spills out the following: --- TeXExec

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-07 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
As I ran into the same problem I followed your instructions ... running the ctxtools command doesn't resolve it I'm afraid. $ kpsewhich lm-math.map /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map You should try that with --engine=dvipdfm , because dvipdfmx will find different

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-06 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
/ 20070130.082837.4bc51f61.en.html As I ran into the same problem I followed your instructions ... running the ctxtools command doesn't resolve it I'm afraid. $ kpsewhich lm-math.map /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map So I issued $ ctxtools --dpx --force /usr/local/gwTeX

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-06 Thread Helin Gai
with the xetex engine, during the xdvipdfmx processing, I got the following message, and all the math symbols are missing: Please see this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20070130.082837.4bc51f61.en.html As I ran into the same problem I followed your instructions

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and Latin Modern

2007-02-06 Thread Helin Gai
As I ran into the same problem I followed your instructions ... running the ctxtools command doesn't resolve it I'm afraid. $ kpsewhich lm-math.map /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map So I issued $ ctxtools --dpx --force /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive CtxTools

[NTG-context] Footnotes lost in Natural Tables

2007-02-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, once again I ran into a dead-end where I never dreamt it could be a problem: using footnotes in tables. For my current project I have to use 16 tables, spread over the whole text (about 400 pages). Some of these tables also need footnotes (sometimes quite large). But they should

[NTG-context] Problems with fonts

2007-02-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
.texmf-config into /var/lib/texmf/web2c and ran texhash. Things seem to be OK. But now, whenever I do texexec filename, I get a PDF with many mathematical symbols missing. So, I do this: texexec --dvi ee03b091.tex dvips ee03b091.dvi ps2pdf ee03b091.ps Now, this seems to work, but the fonts

[NTG-context] regression testing: tests that don't compile

2007-02-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
code 1 is texexec's normal failure code, usually from an undefined cseq. Exit code 5 is from the run-it.py wrapper, which is saying that time (60 sec) ran out, before the texexec process had to be killed. And exit code 6 says that the logfile grew too big (currently, beyond 1MB) before the texexec

Re: [NTG-context] Letters in ConTeXt

2007-02-01 Thread John R. Culleton
just ran the above example in Context. I use whatever tool gets the job done. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Typescript for Linotype NimbusSanL-BoldCond

2007-01-22 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/19/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone put together a typescript for some or all of the Nimbus family? I have the font referenced above and ran it through texfont. It is specified by a customer's designer for a book I am working on. I can of course do the old plain

[NTG-context] Typescript for Linotype NimbusSanL-BoldCond

2007-01-18 Thread John R. Culleton
Has anyone put together a typescript for some or all of the Nimbus family? I have the font referenced above and ran it through texfont. It is specified by a customer's designer for a book I am working on. I can of course do the old plain TeX \font thing but I would like to do it a more

Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
not to strip the binaries, and ran it with debugging libraries and valgrind, like so: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug: valgrind pdfetex -fmt=cont-en b.tex and the output is included below. Here is the chunk from it, where the problem is first detected by valgrind: ==27710== Invalid write of size

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-03 Thread Hans Hagen
} \chapter{C} \dorecurse{100}{\input tufte\par} \stoptext I ran it with the attached Makefile, which produced this output: ctxtools --purge --all /dev/null rm -f q.pdf texexec --verbose --fast --final q.tex run.log Total runs: 4

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]

2007-01-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
\par} \stoptext I ran it with the attached Makefile, which produced this output: ctxtools --purge --all /dev/null rm -f q.pdf texexec --verbose --fast --final q.tex run.log Total runs: 4 (counted by grepping run.log for running: pdfetex

Re: [NTG-context] \startquotation, \cite and footnotes

2006-12-06 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Ok. As for the strange things happening I was able to hunt them down and prepare a simple example (still with the standard \startquotation): We are looking into this. All footnotes in vertical mode are behaving oddly. Thanks! I tried that one but ran into several problems unfortunately

Re: [NTG-context] \startquotation, \cite and footnotes

2006-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
the reference before the closing marks, and moving \cite out of the \start \stop block makes the reference appear on a new line ... The next solution is a bit rude, but works: ... I tried that one but ran into several problems unfortunately. If \cite inserts anything but a tiny string

Re: [NTG-context] \startquotation, \cite and footnotes

2006-12-03 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
pusillanimous sesquipedalian longwinded \stopcitedquotation \stoptext I tried that one but ran into several problems unfortunately. If \cite inserts anything but a tiny string these words won't be wrapped properly onto a new line. Also if I replace \cite[#1] by \footnote {\cite[#1

Re: [NTG-context] bib and bibltx problems

2006-11-02 Thread Matthias Wächter
Hi Taco, any progress? - Matthias On 24.10.2006 15:13, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Matthias, I goofed somewhere, that's for sure. Are you in a real hurry, or can I take a day or two staring at it? Taco Matthias Wächter wrote: Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see

[NTG-context] bib and bibltx problems

2006-10-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references are the same for two of them (!). Appearantly, without sorting the bib entries, the extra label numbering does not work correctly. Changing \setupbibtex

Re: [NTG-context] bib and bibltx problems

2006-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Matthias, I goofed somewhere, that's for sure. Are you in a real hurry, or can I take a day or two staring at it? Taco Matthias Wächter wrote: Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tables

2006-10-11 Thread Gerhard Kugler
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I ran it here (ver: 2006.10.05). With just \placetable[here], it doesn't split. With \placetable[here,split], it splits it into two parts with Table 1.a on one page and Table 1.b on the other page. With my version (of Debian

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tables

2006-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2006/10/11, Gerhard Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I ran it here (ver: 2006.10.05 ).With just \placetable[here], it doesn't split.With \placetable[here,split], it splits it into two parts with Table 1.a on one page and Table 1.b

Re: [NTG-context] multipage tables

2006-10-10 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I have at the moment no ConTeXt where I can test your example file but you should try to change the first line of your float from \placetable[here]... to \placetable[here,split]... I hope it works for you and I also try to run your file till tomorrow. I ran it here (ver

Re: [NTG-context] wiki: debian installation

2006-10-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
even if it is working now for some reason. I ran into the same issue a few days ago and eventually found my to the same solution. About the 'some reason': I noticed that without the fix, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. The answer is the damn database file (the ls-R). kpathsea searches

[NTG-context] ## in \def in \sometxt fails with static MP figure

2006-09-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Now that \sometxt works with static figures (thanks!), I'm converting from using btex..etex to using \sometxt, to avoid MPenvironments (instead put it in the general .tex environment). But I ran into an error with macro arguments and static figures. Let me know if it's not worth fixing in view

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-25 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
versions. 4.log says that write18 ran texmfstart --ifchanged=4-fig.mp texexec --mpstatic 4-fig.mp I ran it by hand omitting the --ifchanged: $ texmfstart texexec --mpstatic 4-fig.mp /home/sanjoy/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:101:in `mpstatic'TeXExec | option 'randomseed' is set to '1131

Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Wolfgang, Thanks for the pointer. I don't have a cont-sys.tex, but cont-sys.rme has these lines % \runMPgraphicstrue % \runMPTEXgraphicstrue The .rme extension meant I'd missed it when I ran grep on the .tex files. I'll uncomment them. Oh, that's not a good idea

Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-23 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Wolfgang, Thanks for the pointer. I don't have a cont-sys.tex, but cont-sys.rme has these lines % \runMPgraphicstrue % \runMPTEXgraphicstrue The .rme extension meant I'd missed it when I ran grep on the .tex files. I'll uncomment them. Oh, that's not a good idea, because the next context

Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:46:56 +0100 Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang, Thanks for the pointer. I don't have a cont-sys.tex, but cont-sys.rme has these lines % \runMPgraphicstrue % \runMPTEXgraphicstrue The .rme extension meant I'd missed it when I ran grep on the .tex

Re: [NTG-context] transparent metafun colors turn nearly black

2006-09-23 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
). Thanks for checking it both ways. Now I'm really puzzled because I also use Firefox (on Linux). I just ran the file below at contextgarden (same one as before but with the MPTEX addition), and it gives 'undefined' in a square where the figure should be. And on my Ubuntu laptop with context 2006.08.08

Re: [NTG-context] transparent metafun colors turn nearly black

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Rolf
too (using Firefox). Thanks for checking it both ways. Now I'm really puzzled because I also use Firefox (on Linux). I just ran the file below at contextgarden (same one as before but with the MPTEX addition), and it gives 'undefined' in a square where the figure should be. And on my Ubuntu

Re: [NTG-context] Greek hyphenation problem

2006-09-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/06, Alan Bowen wrote: I have not been able to get Greek hyphenation to work. To make sure that my set up was right (?), I ran texfmstart ctxtools --pat and put the pattern files in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/ context/patterns The log file shows CtxTools

Re: [NTG-context] Greek hyphenation problem

2006-09-18 Thread Alan Bowen
Mojca— Many thanks for your suggestions. Over the weekend, at Thomas’ suggestion, I • deleted and re-stalled teTeX • unzipped cont-tmf.zip into /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local • copied lang-agr.pat (fr0m Thomas) into /usr/local/teTeX/share/ texmf.local/tex/context/patterns • ran sudo

Re: [NTG-context] problem in kpse.rb

2006-09-17 Thread Johan Sandblom
, Johan 2006/9/17, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: path = run(--expand-path=\\\$#{varname}) rescue '' to path = run(--expand-path=\$#{varname}) rescue '' I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop

Re: [NTG-context] problem in kpse.rb

2006-09-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johan Sandblom wrote: I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop was to use two backslashes: run(--expand-path=\\$#{varname}) My suggestion would be: run(--expand-path='$#{varname}') Taco

Re: [NTG-context] problem in kpse.rb

2006-09-17 Thread Johan Sandblom
Yes, that works. Johan 2006/9/17, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johan Sandblom wrote: I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop was to use two backslashes: run(--expand-path=\\$#{varname}) My suggestion

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt problem on Mac mini

2006-09-17 Thread Bernd Militzer
and testing my TestFile. While creating different examinations this weekend for my students I ran again in trap using tables. But this time I did not use any macro. Just two simple tables. The example works with context : ver: 2005.01.31 but not with ConTeXt ver: 2006.08.22 The main problem

Re: [NTG-context] problem in kpse.rb

2006-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Johan Sandblom wrote: I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop was to use two backslashes: run(--expand-path=\\$#{varname}) My suggestion would be: run(--expand-path

[NTG-context] xetex and metapost

2006-09-16 Thread Alex Lubberts
Hi, After switching to `XeConTeXt' my file with MP graphics (which ran fine before) results in errors. I include a .mp-file like: \startuseMPgraphic{dia1} input Diagram1 ; \stopuseMPgraphic \placefigure{Comment}{\externalfigure[Diagram1.1]} When I run ConTeXt a file test-mprun.mp is created

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and metapost

2006-09-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Alex Lubberts wrote: Hi, After switching to `XeConTeXt' my file with MP graphics (which ran fine before) results in errors. I include a .mp-file like: \startuseMPgraphic{dia1} input Diagram1 ; \stopuseMPgraphic \placefigure{Comment}{\externalfigure[Diagram1.1]} When I run ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and metapost

2006-09-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/06, Hans Hagen wrote: Alex Lubberts wrote: Hi, After switching to `XeConTeXt' my file with MP graphics (which ran fine before) results in errors. I include a .mp-file like: \startuseMPgraphic{dia1} input Diagram1 ; \stopuseMPgraphic \placefigure{Comment

Re: [NTG-context] problem in kpse.rb

2006-09-16 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
path = run(--expand-path=\\\$#{varname}) rescue '' to path = run(--expand-path=\$#{varname}) rescue '' I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop was to use two backslashes: run(--expand-path=\\$#{varname}) so

Re: [NTG-context] YABQ (yet another bib question...)

2006-09-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I just ran into the same question. When using a citation style that doesn't quote the year (like refcommand=num), it seems more logical to drop the maybeyear letter. It seems to work setting \def\maybeyear{\gobbleoneargument} I haven't seen any side

[NTG-context] Greek hyphenation problem

2006-09-15 Thread Alan Bowen
I have not been able to get Greek hyphenation to work. To make sure that my set up was right (?), I ran texfmstart ctxtools --pat and put the pattern files in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/ context/patterns The log file shows CtxTools | processing language agr CtxTools

Re: [NTG-context] YABQ (yet another bib question...)

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
time since I looked at this problem. It is not totally unsolvable, but definately not simple either. Taco, I just ran into the same question. When using a citation style that doesn't quote the year (like refcommand=num), it seems more logical to drop the maybeyear letter. It seems to work

Re: [NTG-context] Making context produce dvi file.

2006-09-14 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
(ran pdftex anyway and produced pdf). --nobackend Thanks, that switch was news to me. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1. ___ ntg-context mailing

Re: [NTG-context] 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages

2006-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
\dorecurse{50}{ \input tufte } \stoptext Then I ran 'texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 p5.pdf' (the --2up doesn't change the error below) and got this error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again a \@@ppoffset -a 5a4 \calculatepaperoffsets ...lue

Re: [NTG-context] 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages

2006-08-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf I tried a few experiments with no luck. Not sure if it's a context or texexec problem, or my confusion. I made the multi-page p5.pdf from \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \starttext \dorecurse{50}{ \input tufte } \stoptext Then I ran 'texexec

Re: [NTG-context] nonbreakablespace

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
of output, and you will probably see an expansion loop occuring (if not, then it may be a ruby issue). i just ran into the loop as well, it has to do with a change in load order of modules, i'll fix it (i'm trying to get rid of funny dependencies and this alpha/beta release was actually

Re: [NTG-context] figure directory is sort of searched

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
) has already been loaded. Here is a minimal min.tex to show what I mean: I remember I ran into that as well (more than a year ago) and I ended up renaming my figures to figure1-1.pdf etc. It actually turned out to be easier for me, because that way I could use the figure filename

Re: [NTG-context] nonbreakablespace

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
, and you will probably see an expansion loop occuring (if not, then it may be a ruby issue). i just ran into the loop as well, it has to do with a change in load order of modules, i'll fix it It works fine with the new version. (i'm trying to get rid of funny dependencies and this alpha

Re: [NTG-context] figure directory is sort of searched

2006-08-15 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Taco sez: Sanjoy sez: The figure searching code gets confused if a file of the same basename (but in a different directory) has already been loaded. I remember I ran into that as well (more than a year ago) and I ended up renaming my figures to figure1-1.pdf etc. It actually turned out

Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt with ctxtools

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Bowen
it for ConTeXt experiments if needed. -Sanjoy Sanjoy— Since I use the teTeX distribution on my Mac, I ran TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local sudo texmfstart ctxtools --updatecontext in Terminal (bash) and the update went perfectly. Many thanks! Alan

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
a symlink in my private texmf tree (ec.enc - lm-ec.enc) and ran texhash, and after that it was all the same. Anyway, this would not explain why I have the same symptom with the texnansi encoding, too. Maybe it helps debugging that dvips gives different error messages: This is dvips(k) 5.95a

Re: [NTG-context] russian

2006-08-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
the date when you ran texmfstart texexec --make --all. If that is older, the format file wasn't written to the right place. You seem to use Ubuntu. I don't know how things are configured there, but I had numerous problems under MikTeX. The reason was that texexec --make --all didn't have any

Re: [NTG-context] colums

2006-08-01 Thread Hans van der Meer
typeset on the upper half of the page. Suddenly about halfway the page the columns are not put side by side but below each other! Can you give an example that shows the problem? Aditya I ran the next code on the Live Context site and it gave me first column on the first page and second

Re: [NTG-context] updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

2006-07-27 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
, or taking public transit...but I dream. can you try: ... I ran this ruby script (on Linux): def locatedlocaltree tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMFLOCAL`.chomp rescue nil unless tree FileTest.directory?(tree) then tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMF`.chomp rescue

Re: [NTG-context] updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

2006-07-26 Thread Ralf Schmitt
thought I had avoided this issue on my previous laptop, which ran Debian testing/unstable and got reincarnated as an Ubuntu laptop. And I had fixed it, by installing the 'lmodern' package. But Ubuntu lmodern is v0.92, at least as of Ubuntu 6.06, and Debian unstable uses v1.00, which

Re: [NTG-context] updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

2006-07-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
$@) According to the bash man entry: @ Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, each parameter expands to a separate word. That is, $@ is equivalent to $1 $2 ... So if you ran

[NTG-context] updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

2006-07-25 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
) Ack, it's the dreaded lmodern problem. I thought I had avoided this issue on my previous laptop, which ran Debian testing/unstable and got reincarnated as an Ubuntu laptop. And I had fixed it, by installing the 'lmodern' package. But Ubuntu lmodern is v0.92, at least as of Ubuntu 6.06

Re: [NTG-context] Can't get texmfstart to work

2006-07-20 Thread Hans Hagen
The Wizard wrote: All - I downloaded and installed ruby 1.8.4 from sunfreeware.com, and now I can at least use the texmfstart command. I ran texmfstart texexec --check and get this back: TeXExec | current distribution: web2c TeXExec | context source date: 2006.07.14 12:08 TeXExec

Re: [NTG-context] emp.sty and metapost

2006-06-28 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Not sure what you mean here, so I ran: latex useemp.tex And got: No file useemp.aux. emp: File useemp.1 not found: emp: Process useemp.mp with MetaPost and then reprocess this file. [1] (./useemp.aux) ) Output written on useemp.dvi (1 page, 400 bytes). Transcript written on useemp.log

Re: [NTG-context] emp.sty and metapost

2006-06-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Taco, Not sure what you mean here, so I ran: latex useemp.tex And got: correct output And now I am lost as well. Nothing useful in the mpxerr.log, I assume? Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http

Re: [NTG-context] emp.sty and metapost

2006-06-28 Thread David Arnold
, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: Taco, Not sure what you mean here, so I ran: latex useemp.tex And got: correct output And now I am lost as well. Nothing useful in the mpxerr.log, I assume? Taco ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] INstall minimal context system.

2006-06-26 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: setuptex just sets some system variables (TEXMF, TEXMFMAIN, TEXMFLOCAL and so on) and modifies the PATH, so you will not get any immediate feedback on whether it ran correctly or not. Depending on your shell you may have to source setuptex path-to-setuptex or just

Re: [NTG-context] INstall minimal context system.

2006-06-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
, but it was the only one that I found to be working. (An alternative would surely be a smart copy of contents of setuptex to .bashrc.) Then I changed the path to point to /usr/local/cont/tex/texmf-linux/bin and ran mktexlsr. If setuptex was executed properly, it should already be in your PATH. If not, other

Re: [NTG-context] Clipping again

2006-06-26 Thread David Arnold
I just ran: texexec dblarrow.tex tmp $ texexec dblarrow.tex TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : dblarrow output : standard

[NTG-context] INstall minimal context system.

2006-06-25 Thread John R. Culleton
to /usr/local/cont/tex/texmf-linux/bin and ran mktexlsr. It followed the new path. I ran texexec --make --alone and it seemed to be successful. Ran mktexlsr again. Then I ran a test program in another directory. It could not find cont-en.fmt. In fact this file or anything similar to this file does

Re: [NTG-context] INstall minimal context system.

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
executable and executed it with no apparent effect. Then I changed the path to point to /usr/local/cont/tex/texmf-linux/bin and ran mktexlsr. It followed the new path. I ran texexec --make --alone and it seemed to be successful. Just a guess: since you used the --alone switch, is there a path

Re: [NTG-context] INstall minimal context system.

2006-06-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
directory. I made the the setuptex file executable and executed it with no apparent effect. Then I changed the path to point to /usr/local/cont/tex/texmf-linux/bin and ran mktexlsr. It followed the new path. I ran texexec --make --alone and it seemed to be successful. setuptex just sets some

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-23 Thread Hans Hagen
of unpredictable side effects (apart from bugs - i just ran out of mem again) figure [num1] . [num2] . [num3] should come out as [num3] . [num2] . [num1] erugif depending on when an otp decides that it should stop we get something else In any case, the num snippets needs to be otp'd in order

Re: [NTG-context] MPinclusions strangeness with labels

2006-06-06 Thread Mojca Miklavec
are generated from a previous run (from your testing). That is, if you purge all temporary files and rerun texexec, do you still get the correct output? No, impossible since I ran the file for the first time. And yes, I deleted everything and rerun and it was OK again. If not, what magic setting do you

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts problem

2006-05-31 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
the first post I ran updmap-sys, and then suddenly the dvi file is as expected; but with the pdf option I get something unexpected: instead of blank for accented letters (when I posted first) there are now sometimes other characters than those I type (I'll send the pdf file if it can help). Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts problem

2006-05-31 Thread Renaud AUBIN
text and you use ec or texnansi in cont-sys.tex, the problem is not encoding-related. ... It can help if you send the output messages of texexec... Jean Magnan de Bornier a écrit : (just a viewer for dvi files, does it matter?) Well, since the first post I ran updmap-sys, and then suddenly

Re: [NTG-context] t-bib and explicitly italizising title parts

2006-05-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
] A. Aamport}, title = {The {\it Gnats\/} and Gnus Document Preparation System}, journal = {\mbox{G-Animal's} Journal}, year = 1986, } and it ran without any trouble. Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] components and figure search paths

2006-05-10 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
you put the file It's in chap/1/ (along with the eps figure) - where did you run it I ran 'texexec onebook' in the ./ directory. Running the component works fine (if I cd to its directory first), because abc-1.eps is easy to find. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power

Re: [NTG-context] mp file not compiling

2006-05-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
, uninstalled it. I verified that texmfstart.exe is in the path and ran texmfstart newtexexec --mptex and get the same error. 2. check that texexec is a synonym (for example texexec.bat under windows or an executable) for running texmfstart [new]texexec I did check that. texexec is a synonym

Re: [NTG-context] generating formats with newtexexec

2006-04-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
terribly, fundamentally wrong with format generation in newtexexec. I just dlded the latest version and ran texmfstart newtexexec --make --all That is absolutely bizarre! :( So I also just downloaded the latest, just now, but I have no such problem (sorry). I have run $ texmfstart newtexexec

Re: [NTG-context] generating formats with newtexexec

2006-04-27 Thread Willi Egger
terribly, fundamentally wrong with format generation in newtexexec. I just dlded the latest version and ran texmfstart newtexexec --make --all from within the directory where the format files should be written. After completion, I double-checked, and I did not get a new version or format file. I

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